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The
HTML Code Fragment
The following is the code which you must add to your website
in order to fulfil the membership requirements.
This code - whose appearance is shown on the right -
allows traffic to navigate to you and
all our fellow member sites through the Webring system.
Remember:
the Latin Dance code is not something you have to be ashamed of,
hiding it at the bottom of an internal page.
After all, the webring will bring lots of visitors to you.
Show it on the homepage and be proud of it!
Now to the tech part.
To make the Latin Dance code operational, you have to do two things:
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download the two images needed.
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customise and insert the HTML code portion
into your (home) page as described below.
1. Images
The two images required are the background,
ldw-skyline.gif,
and the Latin Dance logo,
ldw-logo.gif.
Click on the links to get them and store them into the
same directory
where the file containing the HTML code fragment resides.
2. HTML code
As visibility depends on the link colors
you have defined in the BODY tag of your web pages,
there are two versions - one for the more dark links
and one for more light-colored links.
(Unfortunately, there is no way in HTML to redefine
the colors of links for a code portion.)
You may choose one of the two, but you may not alter the appearance
(i.e., the HTML code provided) in any way, be it text, color, or size.
So much for the preface. The sample code shown below
can be copied from here, but you will also receive it
with the confirmation mail following your application.
Paste the text into your HTML editor, and
- -
substitute every occurrence of the placeholders (green)
with your information (white) as follows:
|
placeholder |
replace with: |
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--ID-- |
your site ID
(you will obtain it with the confirmation mail
following your application)
|
|
--realname--
|
the real name of you, owner of site to be added
|
|
--mailaddress--
|
your E-mail address
|
Here now the two code variants:
- HTML code fragment for darkish link colors:
...and this is what it looks with my link colors set in the BODY tag
(red for unvisited, yellow for visited links):
- HTML code fragment for light link colors:
...and this is what it looks with my link colors (red for unvisited, yellow for
visited links):
How have others done this?
You may wish to see how other ring members have designed their pages, this can
give good hints and ideas.
A great idea - so visit
a randomly chosen site
or get
the list
of all Latin Dance sites.
If it still doesn't work...
...you may want to check the following.
Q: I have downloaded the images, but they don't appear in the browser.
A: The HTML code is designed so that it expects the images
to sit in the same directory as the HTML file. The easiest is to do exactly
this; if you prefer to put images, e.g., in a separate image directory, you
have to adapt the path in the HTML fragment accordingly.
Further, the image files access rights must allow read access to the Web
server;
some browsers by default give restricted rights to downloaded files,
so you have to adjust manually.
In case you have followed (and checked) each step described above
and the appearance still is not as shown, contact
the Latin Dance team
to get help!
© 1998-2003 Peter
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last update: Sam Mai 3 11:17:13 CEST 2003
